Re: Various questions

2005-04-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Philip Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working on a C-to-Parrot compiler (actually an IMC backend > for the LCC compiler), tentatively named Carrot, over the past week. It > can currently do some reasonably useful things, like running the Cola > compiler (with only a very small amount

Re: Various questions

2005-04-15 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Philip Taylor: > * I can usually handle unsigned numbers by pretending they're signed and > using 'I' registers, but some things appear to be awkward without new > ops - in particular, div and cmod, and le/lt/ge/gt comparisons. (As far > as I can tell, those are the only ones C woul

Various questions

2005-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
I've been working on a C-to-Parrot compiler (actually an IMC backend for the LCC compiler), tentatively named Carrot, over the past week. It can currently do some reasonably useful things, like running the Cola compiler (with only a very small amount of cheating), but it has raised a few queries: